'A' Is For Alaska Author Book Signing Event

ICTMN Staff
June 04, 2012
“To the pioneer school teachers who considered it worthy to leave the comforts of home and teach Alaskan children,” reads the dedication of ‘A’ Is For Alaska: Teacher to the Territ...

Inupiat Dictionary App Now Available

ICTMN Staff
April 12, 2012
A new Iñupiat dictionary app provides a quick and easy to look up words in the North Slope Iñupiaq language, the language of the Iñupiat people of the North Slope Borough in northe...
Myrna Gardner

A Republican Native American? How Can That Be?

In a speech to fellow Republicans in Chicago in December 1856, Abraham Lincoln said: “Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much....

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March 09, 2012

Murkowski Sees Iditarod as National Educational Tool

ICTMN Staff
March 03, 2012
Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) sees the Iditarod as more than just “The Last Great Race.” She sees the 1,000-mile sled dog race as an opportunity to educate students all over th...

Grizzly Bear Charges Tourists, Who Are Forced to Remain Perfectly Still

ICTMN Staff
February 29, 2012
Imagine watching an eight-foot-tall, 500-pound grizzly bear charge you and being forced to remain perfectly still and utterly silent...

Hubbub Over 12-Foot 'Vagina' in Front of Wasilla High School

ICTMN Staff
February 28, 2012
A sculpture installed in front of Wasilla High School in Wasilla, Alaska has raised eyebrows and hackles because some who've seen it feel it resembles a vagina...

'On the Ice' Set to Premiere in Twelve Cities

ICTMN Staff
February 15, 2012
In 2008, Andrew Okpeaha MacLean, Inupiaq, showed a short film, "Sikumi (On the Ice)" at the Sundance Film Festival...

Popular Mechanics Imagines a Costa Concordia-Like Wreck in Alaska

ICTMN Staff
January 25, 2012
The Costa Concordia wreck has been a source of shock, anger, and horror since news spread on January 13 that the 952-foot long cruise ship, carrying 3,299 passengers and 1,023 crew...

In Nome, Fuel Begins to Flow

ICTMN Staff
January 18, 2012
A follow-up to our previous stories about the Russian tanker Renda's arduous journey to fuel-strapped Nome, Alaska : The tanker has arrived, the 700-foot hoses have been attached, ...

Fuel Reaches Nome; Cordova Keeps Digging

ICTMN Staff
January 14, 2012
The Russian tanker Renda, carrying much-needed fuel to Nome, Alaska, has arrived...

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